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Even as the sales date approaches, the disagreements persist between Deborah Tipton of Memphis and her younger brother, George Dunklin Jr., the national president of Ducks Unlimited and a member of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission from 2005-12.

“I’m very excited about giving people the motivation to get up at 5 in the morning,” Williams said. “It’ll be a very exciting show with a very excited team who is happy to show up to work each day — even if it does mean waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning.”

In the end, the developer, Dr. Hiren Patel of Texarkana, Texas, invested a total of about $148,500 and owns more than 11 acres of the project, while the city spent $1.92 million to add less than six acres to land it already owned.

In the wake of a state audit, a criminal probe, a whistleblower lawsuit and an investigation by private citizens, the former mayor of Texarkana has concluded that he and other city directors were rooked.

“Our economic development activity is currently on hold as we await the written ruling to determine what our next step needs to be,” Jay Chesshir, CEO of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, told Arkansas Business last week.

A Pulaski County Circuit Court judge's ruling last month that ordered the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock to stop paying chambers of commerce and related entities for economic development programs sent shock waves through chamber offices across the state.

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